X Keeps Crashing on Intel Graphics Card

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:08:31 -0400, Jamie Jackson wrote:
> My X is crashing a couple/few times a day. The screen starts flashing
> black and blacker, and then it just stays black. I'm forced to hard
> reset.
> 
> Dell D620 with Ubuntu 8.10
> 
> Please let me know how to fix/work around.

Does it help to disable framebuffer compression in xorg.conf?

Example:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "intel"
        Option "FramebufferCompression" "false"
EndSection

Regards,
Tino